The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07
EXPOSING THEIR INwARDNEss

It is one of the peculiar thing
developed by the State Constitutions
Convention, that the local press anc
people who have been most Vindlctive
most violent, and most unreasonable
In their opposition to the practice OF
polygamy, should now be the most
bitter opponents to the polygamy pro-
hibiting clause in the Constitution. 1t
Is remarkable that these men who for
fifteen or twenty years have been
waging relentless war against the
Mormons because of the latter's polyg
amy, who have prosecuted the Saints
beyond reason or decency on account
of the plural marriage system, and
have been demanding in season and
out oft, that polygamy shall be sup
pressed or the Saints crushed out of
existence, should now array them
selves against provision for the sup
preston of polygamy more binding
and more effective than any legislative
enactment IAN be. These very men
have been coaxing the Saints to abandon
their polygamy and come within the
law" have been telling them that if
they will discontinue their plural wife
system they will be respected by the |
world; whenever a Mormon has severed |
his polygamous relations, has come
within the law" he has been held up |
as man to be admired and patterned |
after. Now that it is proposed that the
Mormons shall say by their votes
whether or not polygamy shall be a
crime, the men who have urged them
SO determinedly to abandon the prac-
tice are perfectly furious in their {
opposition to the adoption of
the prohibitory clause. We shall
see when the election occurs,
that these inconsistent, unreasonable '
men, if they vote at all, WHY cast their l
ballots in opposition to the Constitution {
and in favor of continuance of polyg- I
amy. {
The true inwardness of this seemingly
peculiar conduct on the part of the /
anti-MOrmou press and agitators, is t
not difficult to discover and fathom s
There is a gang here which lives and C
thriVes by assaulting the Mormons. The o
men comprising the gang are marplots t
and malcontentg. They are Adventures
and wreckars. If they could not en-
pley their vicious natures and talents Il
n wicked agitation, they would go into u
''innocuous desuetude" and de- n
cay. They would rust out. These U
fellows are not opposed to y
polygamy. They care no more how CT
many wives a man has that they do te
about what he eats for breakfast. But te
they can use polygamy as something IL
through which to asssl the Saints. bs
While polygamy shall exist, these men W
will employ it as a cause for attack er
upon the Mormons. If polygamy shall th
be abolished, if it shall be forbidden by d.
the Mormons themselves, the mob of liz
adventurers and agitators viii be left h'
without occupation; they will be IN fe
able to sssail the Saints who place
themselves in harmony with the public
sentiment of the nation. tits pure self it
ishness, If not pure cussedness, which til
has actuated the vicious anti-Mormons th
in the past and is inspiring them to-day c.
TO assume q position directly opposite of
to that they have so long and so stub
bornly occupied. Fortunately the
American Congress and the American 81
people are not so ignorant that they will %
be unable to see the inwardness of the be
agitators. What Congress and the h,
country want is the suppression OF 90
and not the spoliation of the
Mormons, hence this change of base on
the part of the local adventurers will 70
open the eyes of rather than deceive the =,
country as to the nature and motive of
the wicked and destructive agitation
which has been kept up so long in Utah